Amazon starts selling print books in Brazil

The e-retail giant began selling e-books in the country two years ago.

Consumers in Brazil will now be able to order print books from Amazon.com Inc., the company announced today. Amazon began selling e-books in the country two years ago.

CEO Jeff Bezos says Amazon's new service will offer more than 150,000 titles in Portuguese starting today.

Amazon’s e-book portfolio started with 13,000 titles in December 2012 and expanded today to more than 35,000 titles in Portuguese, with another two million titles in other languages. Amazon does not sell general merchandise on its Brazilian site, just e-books, e-readers and, now, print books.

In an announcement on Amazon.com.br, the company also announced a new program that allows customers to read the digital version of a title after ordering the print version. The program is called Read While Ship, and lets customers read the digital version until the print version arrives. More than 13,000 titles are eligible.